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1	" 'Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?' " : Om tro i Ernest Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea Johansson, Elliot January 2023 (has links) In this study I’ve conducted an analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s short story The Old Man and the Sea where my focus has been analyzing the main character Santiago and how and in what ways he can symbolize mankind’s great need of faith. The definition of what faith is and can be understood as is based on the theory called “worldview” or “philosophy of life”. The usage of this theory is because the faith I’m analyzing, through Santiago, is one that is unspecified and dynamic. I’ve used two methods to conduct my analysis, hermeneutics and close-reading. My analysis is divided into three headlines which follow the progress of the novels story, each with a specific theme: Santiago, destiny and death. To answer the leading research question, how and in what ways Santiago can symbolize faith, I’ve formulated analysis questions for each heading which I’ve answered by with citing the novel and interpretating what said quote may signify regarding my study’s purpose. My conclusion for the study is, simply put, that Santiago in matter of fact does symbolize man’s great need of faith. I’ve examined how complex faith is, how it can be experienced and the importance of its functionality. In other words, my analysis has resulted in another, perhaps new, image of what faith is and can be. Tro hopp The Old Man and the Sea livsåskådningar ödet skönlitteratur Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
2	Att hävda vansinne : En undersökning av agens i grekisk myt / To claim insanity : A study about agency in Greek myth Viklund, Lovisa January 2023 (has links) Studien undersöker gudinnan Ate för att bilda förståelse för de antika grekernas föreställning om distribution av agens. Nära förknippade med Ate är Moirai (ödesgudinnorna) och Litai som Ates antites och dessa undersöks för en överblick över krafter som kan påverka en individs agens. För ändamålet används Homeros Iliaden och Odysséen samt Aischylos trilogi Orestien för att kunna följa hur religiösa gestalter skildras och utvecklas över tid. Materialet analyseras med textanalys utifrån perspektivet att religiösa uppfattningar påverkar sociala uttryck. Analysen beskriver de gudomliga aktörerna och redovisar skillnader i hur de skildras utifrån detvå författarnas tolkningar samt hur de mänskliga aktörerna påverkas av de skadliga handlingar de utfört och hur de uppfattas av sin omgivning. Resultatet av analysen visar att ingripande av Ate framkallas av individens bristande moral och det gudomliga hävdas för att göra en svår situation uthärdlig. Moirai hävdas på liknande vis och Ate ses som ett instrument för Ödets vilja. Litai lindrar skadan som Ate åsamkat. Utanför den trojanska cykeln upphör omnämnanden av Litai vilket förändrar Ates funktion. / The study examines the goddess Ate to understand the ancient greek view on the distribution of agency. Other deities closely connected to Ate are Moirai (the Fates) and Litai as the antithesis of Ate and these are examined for an overview of forces that can influence agency. For this purpose Homers Iliad and Odyssey are used along with Aeschylus Orestia to follow how the deities are depicted and how they evolve over time. The material is examined using textual analysis from the perspective that religious views affect social expressions. The analysis addresses how the deities were expressed and accounts for differences in depiction identified between the two authors along with how the actors are impacted by the damaging actions they’ve performed. The results of the analyses show that interventions by Ate are brought upon by an actor's own deficient morals and the divine is claimed in an attempt to make a bad situation manageable. The will of Moirai is claimed with a similar goal and Ate is wielded as an instrument for Moirai. Litai is used to mitigate the damage caused by Ate and their disappearance outside the Trojan cycle alters the very function of Ate. Agency Ate blindness ruin Moirai Fate Litai Agens Ate förblindelse fördärv Moirai Ödet Litai Antikvetenskap
3	Tingens lydnad och människans väntan : Nödvändighet, nåd, handling och tänkande i Simone Weils filosofi / The obedience of things and the waiting of man : Necessity, grace, action and thinking in Simone Weils philosophy Christola, Victor January 2017 (has links) This bachelor thesis engages in a quest to understand the concepts of necessity and grace in Simone Weils thinking. The question in play, in which many more questions lie hidden, reads as follows: How does Weil understand the operations of grace in relation to the ”blind necessity” of the natural world, and what are the philosophical implications of this concept of grace? What are, for instance, given her understanding of the world as God’s creation, the metaphysical grounds for a basic human activitiy such as thinking or reflexion? A reading of Simone Weils works on necessity, grace, affliction and attention is contrasted with her thoughts on science, method and truth. The concept of necessity is compared to the one of Spinoza, especially on the subject of how the good or the just relates to the true and the necessary: it shows there are interesting similarities and illuminating differences between the two philosophers’ lines of thought. Here, the concept of attention becomes central to the image: the idea of a cultivated mode of reception of the world and of the Other. Attention is analogously understood as a method of prayer and a cultivated ethical attitude towards other human beings – and an ideal scientific state of mind. In the final chapter of the analytic part of the composition, Weils concept of grace is investigated in regard to concepts of thinking and understanding. Here, Leibniz idea of the divine world and the divine mind plays a concise but important role on the matter of a tentative metaphysical grounding of thinking as such – how this can be thought and how it reflects and deepens Simone Weils metaphysics, especially her understanding of the highest states of insight into the nature of the world as partly a work of divine grace. In the last chapter Walter Benjamins vision of the coming philosophy as a consolidation between Immanuel Kants transcendental philosophy and religious experience – and religious thought – show the way for further investigation into the field, a field that the thesis has outlined at the same time as it has attempted to answer some specific questions that seems to be the most urgent ones. Weil Simone Weil nödvändighet nåd handling tänkande amor fati uppmärksamhet kärlek rättvisa etik moral epistemologi vetenskapsteori vetenskap empiri deduktion analogi matematik ödet tyngden tyngdlagen insikt styrka Homeros Galilei Newton Spinoza Winch Leibniz Nietzsche Cockburn Kate Larson Rhees Herakleitos Parmenides Lacan Boethius Jesus Platon Walter Benjamin Philosophy Filosofi

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